Hmmm, were I to be engineering a massive outage, I’d test first. Now, I’m trying to think about a group...or a country...with the ability to do this. Perhaps a country who’s already purchased the president, the media, and many universities...naaaah, couldn’t be that.
It is a fair bet that they have pretty good training in cyber warfare.
Remember, your dealing with the media-hype here. Solar flares and sun spots often equal cyber attacks in their eyes.
I Can text
Not call
3:00 AM in New York is 5:00 PM in Bejing.
Just saying.
I an constantly warning friends and relatives about the unreliability of cellular networks.
Verizon here in the Knoxville area. We’re up and running.
Latest report is it’s AT&T. T-Mobil & Verizon saying they don’t have any outages. AT&T said they’re working on it.
Test run
Just change your phone settings to WiFi Calling and you’ll be good to go!
Just the US ???? Houston, we got a problem.
***even stopping some police departments from being able to receive 911 calls.***
When seconds count the police are...well, somewhere! “All lines are busy. Please call Back Later!”
Solar flare one theory
>>An X level (Major) solar flare occurred at 3:32 a.m. CT this morning, 5 minutes later reports of mobile data outages started coming in to Downdetector.
>>Make that 2:32 a.m.
@TheBradSowder (broadcast meteorologist)
Having read this story, I called a nearby friend to see if my phone was working. It is working, and so is that of my friend, fortunately. What a scary story, and I lay any problems squarely at the feet of the traitor Biden and his collection of absolute freaks who hate America.
My ADT security panel went off early this morning. ADT told me it’s the network issue. In the Houston area.
Probably have a bunch of checkbox engineers trying to figure out what’s going on. That in itself could be what caused the issue.
Good. Knock out those obnoxious Consumer Cellular TV ads while you’re at it! ;)
We have US Cellular which is our only option. We are very rural, though can easily see FIVE cell towers from our farm and have to be outside on the front porch or the back deck to get coverage most of the time.
It’s a TREAT when you can take or make a call sitting at the kitchen table; all the ‘modern conveniences’ are ours, LOL!
This is a huge wake up call. People had better be prepared for this kind of stuff. ATM card doesn’t work? Grid down? Low on fuel?
It’s been down in my upper Midwest city.
What’s weird is if i turn my wife off on my iPad i still have LTE and can text my wife